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ME NewsWire / Business Wire
SEOUL, South Korea - Thursday, November 14th 2013
G-STAR 2013
‘GAME Together, DREAM Forever' G-STAR 2013
(Game Show and Trade All Round) -a festival where
people realize their dreams in the world of games,- had
an official opening ceremony on Thursday, November
14, at Busan Bexco with 32 participating countries and
512 domestic/overseas game-related companies.
”Grown to be the largest-scale B2B business market in
Asia with 40% expansion over the last year”
The G-Star 2013 B2B Exhibition is going to be the
largest scale ever with 1,026 booths. The exhibition
space has also expanded 18,000㎡.
"The B2C zone is continuing to catapult into the
global arena”
B2C zone will be operating in exhibition spaces of
about 26,000m2
"New addition of G-STAR Conference, hosting
various attractions such as Google and Oculus VR.”
G-STAR 2013 has arranged for various attractions and
lectures for visitors and game developers. During the
festival, there will be 3 e-sports contests, including
"World of Tanks Korea vs. Japan” organized by
WarGaming, "Nexon Invitational Super Match” by
Nexon, and "League of Legend Champions Winter
Opening Game” by Riot Games. At the G-STAR
Conference which is being held for the first time this
year, there will be keynote presentations by Google’s
engineering director Chris Yerga on "Mobile Business
Success Strategy through Google Play”, and by
Oculus VR’s CEO Brendan Iribe on "The Future of
Rift”. In addition, there will be presentations on 36
topics arranged by celebrated domestic/overseas game
businesses and game development professionals.
”Expansion of the G-STAR investment market that
promotes start-up game companies”
There will be further expansion of the G-STAR
investment market, which began last year. At the G-
STAR investment market which opened at the end of
last October in Seoul, there was a heated game pitching
preliminary round participated by 14 game investors
and 23 game distributors, targeting on the game
projects of start-up and small- and medium-scale game
development companies. For the games of the 26
companies that passed the Seoul preliminary round,
consulting events on game investment and publishing
will be offered to 24 investors and distributors in the
areas of proto-type/seed investment < 11 teams > and
preliminary launching/series A investment < 15 teams >
Contacts
[G-STAR2013 Organizing Office]
JEONGHUN KIM
Tel: +82-2-6000-6675
Fax: +82-51-740-3683
Mail: b2b@gstar.or.kr
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